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Quiz The Crucible

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is brought into Salem to help discover the witches?

a)

Reverend Hale

b)

John Proctor

c)

Judge Danforth

d)

Tituba

2.

Why did John stop going to church?

a)

Parris talks too much

b)

Parris was practicing witchcraft

c)

Parris is too greedy

d)

John has to work on his farm

3.

What were the girls actually doing in the forest?

a)

Witchcraft

b)

Practicing spells

c)

Reading the bible

d)

Dancing

4.

What is a crucible?

a)

a spell

b)

intense suspicion

c)

a trial

d)

a religion

5.

Who does Goody Putnam blame for the death of her children?

a)

Tituba

b)

Goody Nurse

c)

Measles

d)

Abigail

6.

What is an allegory?

a)

Symbolic representation of a larger story

b)

Repeated consonant sounds

c)

A long story

d)

This one is the wrong answer.

7.

What is the Crucible an allegory for?

a)

The Salem Witch Trials

b)

The American Revolution

c)

The Red Scare

d)

The Civil Rights Movement

8.

What is the main conflict in the play?

a)

Man vs. Wild

b)

Man vs. Man

c)

Man vs. Self

d)

Man vs. Society

9.

What character said "[...] and still an everlasting funeral marches 'round your heart."

a)

Reverend Parris

b)

Reverend Hale

c)

Abigail

d)

John Proctor

10.

Why doesn't Giles give up the name of who accused Putnam?

a)

He wants to end the accusations and hysteria

b)

He is stubborn

c)

He is lying

d)

He was the one who accused Putnam

11.

When Elizabeth tells John "The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you," she means that Proctor...

a)

carries the knowledge of his own guilt

b)

is too quick to judge himself

c)

should speak more openly about his thoughts

d)

knows that she loves him and forgives him

12.

When John Proctor tells Mary Warren "It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women," he implies that Mary's behavior is...

a)

irrational

b)

hypocritical

c)

cowardly

d)

rash

13.

Which of the following words best characterizes Mary Warren?

a)

pious

b)

jealous

c)

gullible

d)

vicious

14.

Why does John Proctor forget to mention the commandment forbidding adultery when Hale questions his knowledge of the Ten Commandments?

a)

He has a guilty conscience

b)

He never learned his commandments properly

c)

He believes that it is an unjust commandment

d)

He is afraid of revealing his own sin

15.

Why won't Judge Danforth honor Reverend Hale's request to pardon the prisoners who won't confess?

a)

Because he believes they are guilty

b)

Because the integrity of the court is at stake

c)

Because he likes to see them hanged

d)

Because he does not respect Reverend Hale's opinion

16.

Why doesn't Elizabeth try to convince John Proctor to save himself?

a)

Because she admires his desire to do what is right

b)

Because she no longer feels anything for him

c)

Because she thinks he deserves to be hanged

d)

Because she still blames him for his extramarital affair

17.

How does John Proctor find redemption (being saved from sins)?

a)

He refuses to save himself by confessing when others have died for the truth.

b)

He returned the land he stole from Thomas Putnam.

c)

He admits to his lechery (affair)

d)

He signs a confession.

18.

Which three characters experience a transformation in The Crucible?

a)

Reverend Parris

b)

Reverend Hale

c)

John Proctor

d)

Elizabeth Proctor

19.

Which of the following sequence shows the correct setting for Acts 1 through 4?

a)

Parris’s house, courtroom, Proctor’s house, jail

b)

Parris’s house, Proctor’s house, courtroom, jail

c)

Parris’s house, forest, Proctor’s house, courtroom

d)

Forest, Proctor’s house, jail, courtroom

20.

It can be reasonably inferred from a quote from Proctor which fundamental truths about the witch hunt?  Check all that apply.

"If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abagail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers?"

a)

Once accused, it is a burden to prove one's innocence.

b)

Those in power are the ones raising the accusations.

c)

Those who are doing the accusing have their own flaws.